Stefano Bennati
Principal Responsible AI Engineer at HERE Technologies
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolStefano Bennati is a Principal Responsible AI Engineer based in Zurich with 11 years of experience bridging privacy research and production engineering across industry and academia. He holds a PhD in privacy-enhancing algorithms from ETH Zürich and has progressed through research and engineering roles at HERE Technologies where he now leads Responsible AI initiatives, combining team management with hands-on technical delivery. Stefano designs anonymization algorithms, builds LLM-based privacy and legal review tools, and operationalizes privacy practices working closely with developers and legal teams to ensure compliant innovation. He is a recognized speaker at privacy engineering conferences (IWPE, PEPR) and serves in the EDPB support expert pool, reflecting both technical depth and regulatory engagement. Outside of privacy, his open-source contributions to projects like org-ref and the OSS Review Toolkit demonstrate full‑stack and back-end expertise in tooling that improves reproducible research and software compliance.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ingegneria Informatica Informatics, Ingegneria Informatica Informatics at Università degli Studi di BresciaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Privacy enhancing algorithms, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Privacy enhancing algorithms at ETH Zürich
Italian, English, German
Github Skills (18)
dependency-manager10
kotlin10
dependency-management10
package-management10
dependency-analysis10
org-mode10
emacs-lisp10
bibtex10
git9
yarnpkg9
helm9
pip9
compliance9
github8
licensing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
oss-review-toolkit/ort
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
A suite of tools to automate software compliance checks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 reviews, 7 commits, 20 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Stefano focused on improving the functionality and robustness of the OSS Review Toolkit, specifically related to dependency analysis and package management. They added support for path dependencies in Pub, fixed license detection in Pip, and addressed issues in Yarn's dependency resolution. Additionally, the user made changes to exclude specific dependencies for static code analysis and improved Git submodule handling within the project's codebase, enhancing the accuracy and reliability of the toolkit's analysis capabilities.
dependenciespackage-scandependency-graphprovenancespdx
jkitchin/org-ref
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
org-mode modules for citations, cross-references, bibliographies in org-mode and useful bibtex tools to go with it.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 1 issue in 4 days
Contributions summary:Stefano primarily contributed to the `org-ref` project by enhancing its functionality and fixing bugs. They made key-chord an optional dependency, added an option to open PDFs after download, and introduced a function to manipulate bibtex keys. Furthermore, they addressed a bug related to creating notes for new bibtex entries and fixed an issue with deleting and replacing keys at a specific point within the text. Their contributions involved modifying various aspects of the code, including core functions and configurations related to bibliography management.
org-modecitationsemacscross-referencesbibliographies
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